VOLUME 112, ISSUE 65
Tuition panel begins work on proposal
AIMS TO PRESENT AN INFORMED, COHESIVE CASE TO TRUSTEES
BY BRIAN HUDSON
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Members of the University’s
Tuition Task Force made no prog
ress in drafting a proposal during
their Thursday meeting, but offi
cials said that’s exactly how they
wanted the first session to go.
The task force, a committee that
comprises campus leaders charged
with advising the Board of Trustees
about the best possible course of
action on tuition hikes, is beginning
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Senior Olivia Henderson (right) and sophomore Nicholas
Ajumobi (left) play a game of four-square in the Pit on
Thursday afternoon. After several days of rain, Thursday’s
weather prompted many students to enjoy the outdoors. The
weekend forecast calls for sun today and partly cloudy skies
Students to grieve attacks’ 3rd anniversary
BY JENNY RUBY
STAFF WRITER
For the first time since the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks, student lead
ers have not organized a campuswide
remembrance and instead are encour
aging students to find individual ways
to grieve.
One year after the terrorist attacks,
6,000 students gathered on Polk Place
and honored those who were affected
by the tragedy. At the conclusion of the
ceremony, individuals were invited to
place stones in a spiral around the flag
pole to symbolize those who lost their
lives.
Last year, 250 students gathered
at the base of South Building as they
Silent run aims to commemorate terrorist strikes
BY KIRSTEN VALLE
STAFF WRITER
From shooting M-l6s with
undercover Israeli units to surviv
ing a mock attack on their tour bus,
two UNC women got a crash course
this summer in fighting terrorism.
Julia Buckner and Margaux
Escutin spent two weeks in Israel
as undergraduate fellows for the
Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies, a Washington think
tank created after the Sept 11,2001,
terrorist attacks seeking to educate
the public about the terrorism
threat faced by democracy.
As part of their fellowship, the
students held a silent 5K at 6 a.m.
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discussions about a month earlier
than last year.
Student Body President Matt
Calabria, co-chairman of the task
force, said the longer timeline
will allow members more time to
gather and analyze information in
order to present a stronger pro
posal to trustees.
“I’m thankful that we’re able to
have several meetings throughout
the year,” Calabria said. “We’re
going to be able to make as edu
listened to speakers and a cappella
groups pay tribute. A banner crafted by
the Campus Y that rested on the steps
of South Building read, “Remember
the Past, Live the Present, Trust the
Future.”
This year, student leaders have cho
sen a much more low-key remembrance,
one that requires students to follow the
inscription on last year’s banner.
“Given two years of really big dem
onstrations and also it being on the
weekend, we felt that it was good timing
to continue on with life,” said Derwin
Dubose, co-president of the Campus 1
Y. His organization is not sponsoring a
public event.
Alexa Kleysteuber, student body vice
today to commemorate the 2001
terrorist attacks.
“A 5k is different from simply
keeping vigil,” said Escutin, a
senior history and peace, war and
defense major. “It’s more active,
anfi it fits because we are encour
aging people to be more active in
the fight against terrorism.”
Buckner, a junior public pol
icy major, said the event’s silent
nature is appropriate. “It will give
participants time to think about
what happened and reflect on
what that means,” she said.
A member of the Army ROTC,
Buckner said Wednesday that the
entire Army and Navy battalions
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cated a decision as possible.”
During the first and only meet
ing of last year’s task force, mem
bers discussed and passed a pro
posal to increase tuition S3OO per
year during a three-year period.
The Board of Trustees rejected
that plan during its January meeting,
instead establishing a market-based
philosophy for increasing tuition.
The board passed an increase of
S3OO for residents reduced by the
UNC-system Board of Governors to
SQUARING OFF
Saturday and Sunday. Four-square is just one of the many
activities, some University-sponsored and some not, in which
students can partake on UNC’s campus. Interested students, for
example, can visit the Student Recreational Center’s Field Day today
on Hooker Fields to participate in more grade-school activities.
president, said students should be able
to choose how to commemorate the
events.
“It’s not something to really politi
cize,” she said. “On September 11,
everyone’s going to stop and think and
shudder. It’s not something to rehash
every year.”
Student Body President Matt
Calabria said that it’s important to rec
ognize and to remember the tragedy but
that students don’t need a ceremony to
do so.
“I have no doubt that every student
on campus will remember,” he said.
“Organized activities on campus aren’t
required for us to stop and think about
it.”
and students from the Air Force
ROTC would run. Including a
minimum of 20 noncadets, 100
total participants are predicted.
Lt. Col. Bruce Anderson, assis
tant professor of military science,
gave a short speech before the sk.
He said Thursday that he hoped to
remind people of how important
Sept. 11 was in American history.
“I want to call attention to the
significance of that day three
years ago, how it’s changed all of
our lives,” he said. “I want people
to remember that on that day, we
weren’t Republicans or Democrats
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for nonresidents.
Provost Robert Shelton, co
chairman of the task force, said
last year’s panel was hindered by
a yearlong, systemwide freeze on
tuition enacted by the BOG.
The task force commenced its
process this year by discussing
student demographics, such as
income distributions of students’
families and the average debt of
seniors graduating from UNC.
Andrew Perrin, professor of sociol
ogy, said he is not surprised there is not
a large event planned this year.
“The truth is, people were asking
within three weeks when things would
return to normal,” he said. “We don’t
quite know what to make of the anni
versary. It’s not that the events have
been forgotten.”
Perrin said he expects that it will take
several years before there is a culture
wide memorial for the attacks.
“For a few years, we were grieving
about the event. Now we’re in a middle
period it’s too late to be grieving but
too early to be memorializing,” he said.
SEE 9-11, PAGE 7
COURTESY OF JULIA BUCKNER
Junior Julia Buckner (left) and senior Margaux Escutin
spent two weeks in Israel this summer on a fellowship.
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TAKING ONTHEWAHOOS
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Members also compared the
fundamentals of tuition at UNC
to those at the University’s public
peer institutions, including the
universities of Virginia, Michigan
and Texas.
The task force will spend much
of the next several weeks analyzing
the information and determining
how the University can benefit
most from a campus-based tuition
increase, Shelton said at the meet
ing.
Members are waiting to shape
their policies until they receive pre
liminary results from an external
Carrboro
resident
charged
in murder
Man's arrest culminates
6-year-old investigation
BY SHANNAN BOWEN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
A murder mystery that shocked the town of
Carrboro more than six years ago took a step toward
resolution Thursday.
Carrboro police arrested Andrew Douglas Dalzell
on Thursday morning and charged him with second
degree murder in the death of Deborah Leigh Key,
who was last seen Dec. 1,1997.
Carrboro officers executed a search warrant on
Sept. 2 at Dalzell’s Carrboro residence while investi
gating a separate matter, reports state. Investigators
found evidence believed to be related to Key’s case
during their search, reports state.
Personnel from the Carrboro Police Department
and the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office then exe
cuted a search warrant Wednesday at a residence in
Lincoln County where Dalzell had been living with
friends, reports state.
Dalzell appeared before the Chapel Hill Magistrate
at about 8 am. Thursday and was being held on a
$70,000 secure bond in the Orange County Jail on
Thursday night
According to reports in The Daily Tar Heel’s
archives, Key was 35 when she disappeared. She was
last seen talking with a local artist outside Sticks &
Stones, a former Carrboro pool hall. The artist was
later questioned but never arrested.
Carrboro police would not comment on the cir-
SEE MURDER, PAGE 7
DTH/RAY JONES
Legislature
forges new
association
with BOG
BY EMMA BURGIN
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The state’s public higher education system could
be in flux, as its governing body and the legisla
ture in charge of it seem to be moving in different
directions.
Members of the UNC-system Board of
Governors could do little but watch this summer
as the N.C. General Assembly approved several
bills that momentarily stripped the board of the
power invested in it.
Legislators were well within their rights when
they went over the BOG’s head to approve a mas
sive capital projects package, which mandated sev
eral projects yet to be greenlighted by the board.
But because the BOG is charged with guiding
the UNC system, those greenlights have histori
cally been in place before the General Assembly
takes a look.
Of the myriad projects, only UNC-Chapel
Hill’s cancer center and East Carolina University’s
heart and stroke center had been approved by the
board.
Today, the BOG will start to analyze the proj
ects the legislators have handed it, even though
any action it takes on the research centers will be
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study that aims to determine how
market-based tuition increases
impact enrollment.
Officials are cautious of the
strain any increase will place on
students’ wallets, Shelton said at
the meeting.
“I would suggest ... that we
collect all this wisdom,” he said.
“Having a written recommenda
tion is the right way to go. This is
such an important topic.”
Calabria said that although it
is too early to tell which areas are
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